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Last night on television a very popular programme was being shown. Superquark is hosted by the UK’s equivalent of our David Attenborough, the mighty Piero Angela. It’s a very comfortable programme; the studio into which you are invited has a living room feel with the decadence the setting from the 1960 George Pal film, The Time Machine.  It’s very easy watching, and they tend to let an excerpt from documentary roll, and then return to the studio for a discussion about it.

The point of this post has to do with health. One of the polls they ran last night was on how many litres of water a person should drink every day. Most of the people that were questioned in the street responded that they drank at least 1.5 litres of water every day. Even if the actual statistics presented by an expert afterwards suggested that the amount of water consumed by Italians was, on average, half, it did make me think….If we did the same poll in the UK what would the response be.

Could the secret to a long life of Italians be because they drink a lot of water? I don’t know, but I do know that in the UK people prefer something fizzy or enhanced over something naturally pure, and I think this would be a positive leaf that us Brits could take out of their book.

I know there must be some truth to what I am saying because whenever I return to the UK the only water I can get in a bottle consistently is Volvic, which if you’ve ever drank at room temperature, tastes foul – you might as well be drinking plastic.

By contrast, go to an Italian supermarket and you’ll find a water offering of at least 15-20 different brands. Now it’s also true that we drink a lot of water over here because our tap water tastes like a swimming pool, but I still think there is a key message here:

Give water a big vote of confidence..and if you want the best…there is only Levissima in my book!